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Perceptual Effectiveness of High Performance Work Practices in Indian Organizations


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1 Oriental Insurance Company Limited, 504, Janambhoomi Chambers, Ballard Estate, Mumbai 400001, India
2 Maharishi Dayanand University, Rohtak 124001, India
     

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Employees' perception and their willingness to adapt new work system have significant effect on success of High Performance Work System. Differences in employees' perception could arise because different people have different inbuilt mechanism to filter external information. This paper highlights that the employees' perception for effectiveness of HPWPs lies in 'Effective' category of five point rating scale. Further 35 dimensions of HPWPs have been subjected to factor analysis to highlight broader paradigm into limelight. These factors are subjected to gender and sector based perceptual variation test.

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High Performance Work Practices, Perception, Effectiveness.
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Naval Garg
Oriental Insurance Company Limited, 504, Janambhoomi Chambers, Ballard Estate, Mumbai 400001, India
B. K. Punia
Maharishi Dayanand University, Rohtak 124001, India

Abstract


Employees' perception and their willingness to adapt new work system have significant effect on success of High Performance Work System. Differences in employees' perception could arise because different people have different inbuilt mechanism to filter external information. This paper highlights that the employees' perception for effectiveness of HPWPs lies in 'Effective' category of five point rating scale. Further 35 dimensions of HPWPs have been subjected to factor analysis to highlight broader paradigm into limelight. These factors are subjected to gender and sector based perceptual variation test.

Keywords


High Performance Work Practices, Perception, Effectiveness.

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